My son was three and a half when his preschool teacher pulled me aside after pickup one afternoon. She said it gently, the way teachers do when they are trying not to alarm you , but the message was clear. The other children could not understand him. Even she had to...
When Your Child Is Struggling and You Are Not Sure What To Do Next There is a particular kind of worry that sits with you when something is not right with your child. It is not dramatic. It does not announce itself loudly. It just quietly follows you around, at the...
Nobody really plans to end up in therapy. Most people spend months, sometimes years, telling themselves they’ll be fine. That things will settle down. That everyone feels this way sometimes. And then one day something tips, a panic attack in a grocery store,...
Most people don’t wake up one day and suddenly know what they want to do with their life. It builds slowly, a feeling that something’s off, that you’re going through the motions, that Sunday evenings feel heavier than they should. For a lot of people...
My neighbour called me last spring, completely at a loss. Her eight-year-old had started crying every night before bed, saying he didn’t want to go to school. Not because of bullying, not because of grades, he just couldn’t explain it. She kept waiting for...
